There is a progress bar in my cultivation of immortality

The third day after the second session of the meeting.

Wang Ping was again driving the luck formation under the locust tree to deduce the future situation. This time he was trying to deduce the future direction of some fixed characters, but the picture would become blurred every time he deduced to the end, even when he was deducing a mortal.

It's not that someone is distorting the future outcome, but that a fixed consciousness cannot deduce the future, unless you can travel through time and space to observe the real future. However, once the real future is observed, the future will inevitably change, which will form an unsolvable deadlock.

Therefore, human destiny can only be predicted but cannot be truly observed.

"Why are you in such a low mood again?"

Yu Lian flew down from the old locust tree, and the figure of Wang Ping in meditation was reflected in her pair of golden vertical pupils.

Wang Ping relaxed his body, shook off his wide sleeves, stretched out his legs, and then lay on the soft spiritual grass. He turned his head to look at Yu Lian, "I thought of something. It's okay. It will be fine in a while."

"what's up?"

"As for the future, it is rumored that after the Jade Purity Sect's Golden Elixir Great Dao is cultivated to Dao Fruit, it can see through the past and future of all matter at a glance. So, are these past and future real?"

Yu Lian didn't expect Wang Ping to suddenly ask such a profound question. She tilted her head and thought for a while, then said, "The past can be explained, but the future... once the future is explained, it is no longer the future. Besides, the past and future that the Jade Purity Sect's Golden Elixir Avenue can see are in its rules, not the entire universe."

When she said this, her eyes flickered, as if she remembered something: "I suddenly remembered a story I read a long time ago. There was a diligent and capable young man who met an old immortal. The young man prayed to the old immortal to tell his fortune. The old immortal saw that the young man was respectful and heroic, so he agreed."

"After the old immortal used his secret method to deduce for a while, he told the young man that he would become rich in the future. After that, the old immortal flew away. The young man was overjoyed after hearing the old immortal's words, but he became lazy from then on. He waited for wealth to come every day, but he never got it until the end of his life."

After hearing this story, Wang Ping looked up at the blue sky and whispered, "So the Star Gods who have the ability of 'prophecy' always go crazy, because their prophecies will erode their minds and will keep changing, making them unclear about the boundary between prophecy and reality."

After saying this, he exhaled, closed his eyes and said, "Forget it, don't think too much about it."

When he was about to take a break, his personal communication token showed energy fluctuations. He took it out and looked through it. It turned out to be a message from Ao Hong, saying that he would come to visit him at the mountaintop temple.

"Yu Lian, go meet Ao Hong, he's outside."

Wang Ping stood up reluctantly, stretched out his left hand to calculate the time, and found that there was still a long time before Rong Yang invited him to the Zhenyang Sect.

When Yu Lian heard Wang Ping's instructions, she immediately transformed into her original form that was over a hundred feet tall and rose into the clouds, causing the disciples of Qianmu Temple to look up. Then they lowered their heads and did their own things as if nothing had happened.

Wang Ping stood up and used the "cleaning technique" to clean the coffee table first, then activated the puppet in the yard to come over and prepare to make tea. When the flames started in the stove, Ao Hong entered the mountaintop dojo under the cover of the rain lotus's breath.

"The third brother is ready to send troops to the Liangjiang area. What are your plans?" Ao Hong steadied his body, bowed to Wang Ping, and then got straight to business.

Wang Ping returned the greeting and said, "You should know the resolution of the second meeting, right?" After that, he invited Ao Hong to sit down.

Ao Hong sat down next to the coffee table and responded, "It's already spread, how could I not know about it?"

Wang Ping sat down and leaned against the cushion beside him casually. He looked at Ao Hong and said, "I have already let my disciples handle this matter. I don't think there will be any big problems. Fellow Daoist, you may as well tell me what you are going to do."

Ao Hong did not hesitate and said directly: "The third brother plans to capture Pingzhou Road, which no one pays attention to, and then occupy Binguan and take over the Liangjiang area as a buffer with the southern regime, and then go north to capture Qingpu Road."

Wang Ping thought for a moment and said, "It's a good plan, similar to what I thought, and it has a high chance of success. The local government in Pingzhou Road doesn't have much fighting power at all."

Ao Hong nodded and continued, "The third brother wants to set up a magic array and use the spirituality of the heaven and earth in the magic array to increase the strength of the water spirit in his body, so as to complete the final evolution before being promoted to the fifth realm."

He used the word "evolution" to describe cultivation, which was not wrong. After all, they all had dragon bodies, and for them, advancing to the fifth realm was a further evolution.

Yu Lian, who was sitting cross-legged on the other side of the coffee table, couldn't help but ask, "So, you want to do something with Ao Bing's magic array? Are you sure you can hide it from him? After all, it's related to his cultivation, he should be very cautious, right?"

Ao Hong smiled smugly upon hearing this. "This was all thanks to your coercion of the Third Brother ten years ago. He felt that the power he held was not enough to threaten Zhongzhou, and eventually allowed my people to infiltrate the core area of ​​the Third Brother's sect. However, I also suffered a lot in order to gain their trust."

He relaxed a lot when he said this, looking at the boiling water on the stove, "In fact, these things are not so secretive. After all, to complete the magic array of the third brother, many people are needed to cooperate, which gives us room for maneuver. In addition, the third brother is stubborn and self-righteous, and he is usually very arrogant to other brothers. Otherwise, I would not have been successful in Shangjing City."

Although Ao Hong had a smile on his face when he spoke, his expression would reveal murderous intent from time to time. He really wanted to kill Ao Bing.

At this time, the puppet next to him had brewed tea. Wang Ping picked up one of the teacups, took a sip of the fragrant tea and asked, "What do you need us to do? Are you really confident that you can take down Ao Bing?"

Ao Hong was also sipping tea to ease his mood. Upon hearing this, he immediately put down his teacup and said, "Give Lao San enough space to display his abilities. For example, you can fight the northwest government and the rebels in the north first. As for taking down Lao San... I am confident that I can disrupt his mind for ten breaths, but if I want to completely end Lao San's life within ten breaths, I still need to think of some ways."

The vitality of a dragon is very strong. In addition, water has no fixed shape. It is not an easy task to completely end the life of a fourth-level dragon body who practices the "White Water Secret Method" within ten breaths.

Wang Ping seemed not to hear Ao Hong's words and continued to sip his tea.

Ao Hong was not in a hurry. He picked up the teacup and sipped his tea while waiting quietly.

Yu Lian had already finished two cups of tea and was urging the puppet to pour her the third cup of tea. After drinking the third cup of tea, her eyes fell on the shade of the old locust tree. The calico cat with half of its head exposed was looking at Ao Hong cautiously, with caution and prudence in its eyes.

"You can ask Hongze to discuss it with Liu Shuang. I will inform Liu Shuang. I will not be involved in the details."

Wang Ping made a promise.

Ao Hong did not give a surprising answer. He put down his teacup and bowed, saying: "Thank you so much, fellow Daoist. I will make arrangements right away. Bye." After that, he concealed his breath and disappeared like a stream of light.

Wang Ping watched him disappear into the sky, and sent a message to Liu Shuang to tell him about this matter. Then he heard the calico cat meow and jump out from behind the old locust tree.

"What are you worried about, you coward?"

Yu Lian said to the calico cat. The calico cat meowed again, jumped onto her sleeping cushion and lay down. After looking at Wang Ping, it covered its head with its front paws and fell into a deep sleep in the blink of an eye.

Wang Ping stood up and walked to the garden path. He looked up at the sky and called Yu Lian, "Let's go to the Zhenyang Sect and take a look."

"it is good!"

Their conversation made the sleeping calico cat twitch its ears, but it ignored them.

...

Among the mountains to the west of the Yunhai Grassland, there was a sacred mountain for the grassland people hundreds of years ago. It was majestic and magnificent, standing in the sky like a god. It was not only majestic but also extremely beautiful. At the same time, there was abundant grass on the hillside and foot of the sacred mountain.

But now, this sacred mountain only has majesty left, so majesty that people dare not look directly at it, because the entire mountain range is replaced by crimson flames. From a distance, it seems as if the sky is burning. The lush grass around the mountainside and foot of the mountain has long turned into crimson wasteland, and the rich breath of fire spirit is burning all life.

In the hearts of the people on the grassland, this mountain is still a sacred mountain, but the meaning it represents is completely different. It used to be kind to the world, but now it forces people to bow their heads.

Wang Ping looked at the familiar mountains in front of him, the river dug around the mountains, and the candle trees planted on both sides of the river for ecological balance.

Isn’t this the former Zhenyang Mountains?

Now this mountain has no name, and there are no towns or villages on the mountain, only caves where the Zhenyang monks practice.

"There are thirty-two third-level cultivators, thirteen of whom are Zhenyang cultivators." Yu Lian's soul said to Wang Ping after scanning the Zhenyang Sect's headquarters.

"Now that I think about it, the attack on Zhenyang Mountain was indeed just a game." While speaking, Wang Ping released his own aura and lifted the state of 'nothingness' to emerge from the wood spirit aura.

The next moment, a figure rushed out from the flaming mountains ahead and appeared in front of Wang Ping in a blink of an eye. This person was naturally Rong Yang. He laughed loudly and clasped his fists and said, "Come on, please, I'll treat you to the strong liquor I brewed!"

Wang Ping smiled when he heard this and looked around at the mountains outside the main mountain range. These mountains were almost all occupied by various Taoist temples, which were obviously side sects affiliated with the Zhenyang Sect.

Noticing Wang Ping's gaze, Rong Yang said with a smile, "Before my Zhen Yang Sect came to settle here, there were hundreds of Taoist temples of all sizes, and they often attacked each other, and sometimes even coerced the local people. The disciples of the Sun Sect only hid in Beizhou, saying that they were retreating from the world and practicing in seclusion, but in fact they had no benevolence."

Wang Ping didn't respond to this question. He looked at the flaming mountain behind Rong Yang and said, "Didn't you say you would treat me to your strong liquor?"

"Haha, I've drunk so much southern rice wine from you in the past, so I'll let you try some northern liquor this time."

Rong Yang turned sideways and invited Wang Ping again, pointing to the Zhenyang Mountain base in front of him where the fire and clouds complemented each other. To be honest, looking at the Zhenyang Mountain base from here really has a magnificent beauty.

First, it is mapped into crimson clouds, which roll like waves with the air flow. Combined with the black and white light outside the atmosphere, there is a very strong sense of oppression, as if you are in some mysterious and powerful secret world.

Wang Ping took Yu Lian and followed Rong Yang through the clouds, and immediately felt the heat wave on his face. Especially when he crossed the barrier array set up by the Zhenyang Sect, the fiery feeling made Yu Lian feel repulsive.

The Zhenyang Sect's headquarters on the mountain has a magnificent hall and attic built of huge stones at the outer gate, but the inner gate is completely bare.

Rongyang's dojo is on the east side of the mountains. Outside is a huge platform facing the sun in the sky. The built-in magic array increases the heat of the sun's rays by who knows how many times, making Wang Ping feel uncomfortable.

"My two Taoist friends, please sit down!"

Rong Yang brought Wang Ping to a red stone table on the high platform, pointed at the stool next to the stone table and invited Wang Ping and Yu Lian.

Yu Lian was still lying on Wang Ping's shoulder. At this moment, her whole body was covered with a layer of ice crystals to resist the strong fire spirit energy in this place.

As soon as Wang Ping sat down, two disciples of the Zhenyang Sect fell from the sky.

Rong Yang hurried over and said, "Put it here. Yes, right here." He pointed to the empty space on the left side of the stone table. The two Zhen Yang Sect disciples each took out a storage bag and took out the wine jars inside.

"Be careful and don't rush."

Rong Yang instructed.

The two Zhen Yang Sect disciples did not dare to be impatient. They took out the jars one by one.

Rong Yang couldn't wait any longer. He picked up the three wine jars that he had just put down and walked over, saying, "My two Taoist friends, have a taste." As he said that, he couldn't wait to use magic to remove the seal.

After hearing what Rong Yang said, Wang Ping opened the seal with some anticipation. Immediately, a strong aroma of wine penetrated into his nostrils, stimulating his senses.

Yu Lian, who was lying on Wang Ping's shoulder, shook her head, as if trying to get rid of the irritating smell that had penetrated her nose.

Rong Yang did not prepare a wine bowl or wine glass, so Wang Ping could only follow Rong Yang's example and pick up the wine jar and take a big gulp. The stimulating aroma of the wine was stronger, and after it went down his stomach, it spread to his entire chest at a very fast speed. However, as soon as he felt a little bit, he was swallowed and suppressed by the wood spirit in his body.

Wang Ping instinctively took another big sip, and felt the hot and stimulating sensation again, a feeling he had not had in a long time. It made him feel refreshed, and he began to drink in big gulps.

In the blink of an eye, the whole jar of wine was drunk, making Wang Ping's consciousness feel particularly refreshed. He let out a long breath. Yu Lian felt Wang Ping's emotions, her body swelled to five meters long, and she rolled up her jar of wine with her tail, and then drank the whole jar of wine just like Wang Ping.

"We have purified this wine with the Fire Spirit. Normally, we store it in a special cellar. It tastes especially good when I drink it. It makes me feel like I am still a living person!"

Rong Yang stood up and picked up three jars of wine and walked over.

Wang Ping threw the empty wine jar aside and heard Rong Yang continue, "Daoyou Zhigong should be here soon. Let's drink a lot before she comes. It's a pity that we can't get drunk with our cultivation level."

While removing the seal from the wine jar, Yu Lian asked, "I have always been curious about the 'fire spirit' you mentioned. Can you take us to see it?" (End of this chapter)